Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/he6rec8v · ★★☆☆ Fair (842 ratings) · submitted 1997
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/hvtbkoet · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
tiny.ag/pyfjvpn5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (79 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
tiny.ag/dncdjxtf · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · ★★☆☆ Fair (1099 ratings) · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/iwcasutl · ★★☆☆ Fair (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
tiny.ag/ifr4pyih · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/qn68ckxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
tiny.ag/wiq0woar · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.
tiny.ag/la8pw7kl · ★★☆☆ Fair (381 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
tiny.ag/4horecyq · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/uyr1lndu · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/lasqyfqt · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
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